Man City Claim Scouting Network Database Hacked By Rival Club

Chris Wright

16th, June 2013

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By Chris Wright

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HACK ATTACK

According to this morning’s Daily Mirror, Manchester City’s scouts are up in arms over suspicions that the club’s super secret scouting database may have been hacked by an employee of another club – possibly a Premier League rival.

Given that the Arsenal first-team squad is freely available on Wikipedia, we merely assumed City didn’t have any use for such a network, but apparently the club believe their online “Scout7” performance analysis system – ­which accumluates and stores detailed scouting reports of every player the club have ever targeted around the world – has been infiltrated, with Etihad executives bringing in “espionage experts” to investigate the security breach and track down the hackers responsible.

It’s all a bit “Man from U.N.C.L.E” isn’t it?

Word to the wise, if we were City we’d probably start the search by looking for formerly banned hackers who have just recently turned 18. Yep, this definitely sounds like the handiwork of “Zero Cool”.

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16 Comments

  1. Ricky says:

    Is this the database that is open Football Manager > PlayerSearch > sort by value > add top 20 players to shortlist

  2. leeyiankun says:

    Disgusting article.

  3. SP says:

    Well, Chelsea stole AVB’s scouting docs, so I wouldn’t rule them out.
    Liverpool, on the other hand, or ‘sources close to them’ (i.e. their fans) believe Spurs have a vampiric relationship with their scouting network.
    Mind you, it wasn’t mailed down, so I wouldn’t rule Liverpool, themselves, out of the equation ;-/

  4. thekaratesuit says:

    mancini’s probably just logged in on the wrong account

  5. blueknight says:

    Hope its funny when the FA EPL get to docking Points & massive fines… now that would be funny… Spying,cheating,theft, etc etc…

  6. Greg says:

    Are you sure “Acid Burn” is not the culprit?

  7. Zam says:

    Perhaps they don’t realize that everyone is allowed to Google Arsenal?

  8. aran says:

    what a joke, man citys scouting system involves scouting who other teams are scouting and then offering them twice as much to sign on. dirty pikey club.

  9. grsssssssss says:

    these arsenal comments

  10. hurtz says:

    many city got scouts?
    is that a joke all they do is go to the top clubs and pay out there u know what to get there best players if thats a super secret database u might aswell sack ur scouts and jus play football manager and youtube cuz any1 can do what they do given the funds. that aint no scouting network u want to go to villa to see what a scouting network is like UTV

  11. marty says:

    maybe its the first time Man City used a scouting system rather than using fifa manager mode. it’s pretty much the same thing, given the amount of money they have

  12. Joe says:

    This would be the same scouting system that was used to pick out Scott Sinclair and Maicon as good buys? I’m not sure why anyone bothered to hack it…

  13. cr7 says:

    perhaps the fbi or cia looking for “suspicious” transactions for the deals of navas and fernandino

  14. s says:

    you’d think with all the money, they could do something to prevent that. i imagine there scouting network being more of a shopping list, similar to what you bring to the super market.

  15. Peters says:

    The Sheiks fired up a copy of Football Manager 2013 and were surprised by the database search results

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